Experimental Cinema Movies

A 16mm experiment using negatives, hand-scratched film, and the rhythm of manual editing to call upon the experience of moments beyond reality.

An anonymous multinational company interested in capitalizing natural resources, deceitfully leads a powerful politician's wife and her chauffeur on...

“Grapheme” is a short experimental video exploring the visual representation of language and symbols. A personal collection of books,...

A surreal mosaic pieced together from fractured memories and childhood recollections as told by an unnamed narrator who relives a traumatic incident...

In Slot in Memory, a 2013 short from Syrian filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed, images of war are only visible through a tiny crack in an otherwise dark...

"SN was born out of an intense personal despair, and a desire to depict a failure of the self, coincident with my discovery of super-8 as a medium...

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

Dwellings and footpaths carved in rock echo a history of living in sync with the natural world. A distance away, a geological anomaly reverberates in...

This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs.

The third film from Shahriar Hanife's series of experimental etudes, an Iranian researcher.

A condensation of a handful of sunsets with various visual moods. Red and blue as opposites that still find a way to cohere. Concrete silhouettes...

Two gay men in Japan discuss the end of their respective relationships.

An introspective journey through the silent language of architecture, "Sensuousness" presents an evocative tapestry of black-and-white imagery. Each...

Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing...

This Bed I Made presents the bed as a place of solace and agency beyond just a site of illness or isolation. Through the shared stories of two...

a sports movie

A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

From Muybridge and Porter, passing by John Ford and Howard Hawks, all the way to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, a story of a...